Roost it far

IN: Brown, Bowey OUT: Gawn, Chandler. Give Max the weekend to refresh and put some k's into his legs without the body on body impacts of playing.

They played well against Collingwood. Max had a poor night in the rain, he wasn't alone. Loading a 31 year old ruckman is likely to see a dip in performance

It appears the club has set Brown the last 8 weeks and finals.....let's see how that pans out

I meant odds are higher

I have no idea what the match committee are thinking. So far they've netted us a flag and I'm pretty confident their plan will net us another. If you think Tomlinson's omission from the team resulted in the loss then I suggest you do more research. He ain't that good!

Like Collingwood who we controlled completely with our defensive effort. Sorry but your analysis is just plain wrong.

Love it Big fella, especially the chocolate teapot, where do i get one of those! Hope your travels are going well, are you back for finals?

I'm going to guess that the odds of a mark and goal in the forward line are lower than a crumber cleaning up around a pack and kicking a goal. I might be wrong but it would explain a lot. Similiar to those bemoaning May's kick outs, only to realise that we are the number 1 club for turning kick outs into goals.

When have we ever made 5 changes?

On Tomlinson, a few weeks back we were calling for his head, then he played a decoy role on McKay and a good game against the Pies. Just calm the farm. I think he has a spot down back with petty up forward. I think we need to bench the resting ruckman for awhile and get them fresh for Sept. The loading may or may not be finished but the next few weeks will show. All tracking well in my opinion.

disagree, he's playing like a 19 year old key forward. I think he's doing just fine.

I think he has a much better chance of success if Petty is there. Had Petty played on Stewart…….

I get he fumbled, I was annoyed as anyone. He was more than cooked at that stage. Did you see him sucking air afterwards.

You’re such a drama queen. Other coaches can have all the strategies they like. Fact is our best is the best. Run Oliver and Petty back into touch and look out

We were also missing Oliver and Petty for both games. I can’t see any other team who is better than us. If we’re fit come finals we’re the team to beat. The competition knows it and I’m pretty sure you do to

That’s exactly why I thought they bought him into the side. Stewart killed us!

Stewart pushed Viney, he also killed us

No it wasn’t. We were completely out on our feet. It was played on a ramshackle oval in the rain after our bye. Meaningless. We sit 3rd with a good draw leading into our 14th Flag. Relax and stop making mountains out of it

Gawn needs a week off Tomlinson back, Petty forward light week on the track lots of goal kicking practice dismiss that game, it’s not a true indicator of where we were at

What for?

Inconsequential game for us but that was really hard to watch

You need to get out more

No. 6…..he’s terrible

I’ve got a 13 year old girl and she’s an absolute sweetheart

I think they might start the night with Petty forward with Smith and see how that looks for the future (dry September MCG) However if our defence leaks then we can switch Petty back and then see how that performs. I still think it's possible to play 3 talls back and forward.